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<br />Colorado River has been a political football in Arizona, and it
<br />threatens to become one again, to judge from current statements
<br />and editorials. Let us pray that it does not."
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<br />Arizona could, if it chose, go it alone, said Mr. Ely. But
<br />if it did so, he said, it would sacrifice the hard-won support of
<br />its sister st:Jtes. Mr. Ely pictured them as mountain climbers
<br />tied together for survival. "We have just started up a very
<br />steep climb," he s:Jid. "At the moment we are on a ledge or
<br />plateau, at the end of this session of Congress. We have made
<br />excellent progress, but we can go no further until the political
<br />weather breaks "iter the election. We face two choices. We
<br />can stick together, rally our strength, and continue our progress
<br />at the beginning of the next Congress. This is what California
<br />and most of the other st:Jtes intend to do. Or we can cut the
<br />rope and each of us go it :J.lone, as some of our Arizona friends
<br />propose. If we do, there are going to be some casualties, and
<br />some of us are going to be back whe,re we started-in the quick-
<br />sands of dissension, and probably for a long time. The choice
<br />seems self-evident."
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<br />Secretary Udall Still Optimistic
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<br />A week after Mr. Ely's appearance in Arizona, Secretary
<br />Udall said in Washington that he, too, was optimistic about the
<br />channces for passage of a regional bill. He proposed a complete
<br />re-evaluation and 3,nalysis of the bill which had died in the
<br />House Rules Committee. This should include a study of alter-
<br />natives, among them the building of nuclear power plants on
<br />the Lower Colorado River, said Secretary Udall. .
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<br />Still another hopeful note was struck by another Interior
<br />official, Undersecretary Charles F. Luce, in a speech in Phoenix.
<br />He said new approaches to the problem were being examined
<br />in the Interior Department's re-study. He hoped Arizona would
<br />not give up the idea of going the federal route. He said a go-
<br />it-alone option should be kept open, but he warned that a state-
<br />financed project would mean more expensive water. "The'
<br />strongest argument for the Central Arizona Project," said Mr.
<br />Luce, "is that it is right. And somehow, however slowly, our
<br />democratic form of government eventually does the right thing. . .
<br />The Johnson administration is committed to try for a federal
<br />CAP and I believe that your congressional delegation will sup-
<br />port this effort with all of its strength and wisdom. The state
<br />of Arizona deserves this project. Everyone agrees on' that, even
<br />the Pacific Northwest. You won your case before the United
<br />States Supreme Court. You need the water. The project is eco-
<br />nomic. It would be ironic and, I think, unjust if Arizona, which
<br />has supported federal water projects in all of the other Western
<br />states, were herself not to receive the benefits of federal financ-
<br />ing for her own project."
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<br />Mr. Luce said one alternative under consideration was to
<br />obtain 400,000 kilowatts of pumping power needed to lift water
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